Re: Which Linux Kernel Version for Athlon XP?
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:41:21 +0100 (CET) Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> wrote:
> Hi Ron!
>
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On a workstation, after the installer defaulted to 2.2.20, I downloaded
> > kernel-source-2.4.17 & kernel-headers-2.4.17-k7, then built my own
> > kernel, choosing "Athlon". No problems...
>
> Ok, a few questions:
>
> 1. Did the 2.2.20 kernel work with your Athlon XP? Or, put in
> different words, is an Athlon XP backwards-compatible with a
> "regular" Athlon so that an older 2.2.x kernel can be used as well? (I'm
> asking because to me it seems not obvious why you switched to 2.4.17.)
2.2.20 is built for i386...
> 2. Were you able to use the new features of the Athlon XP?
Don't quote me, but I think that the difference between the Athlon XP
and Athlon are all in hardware (i.e., no new OS-accessable features)
> 3. What Debian distro are you using (Woody or Potato)?
Woody
> 4. Where did you get kernel-source-2.4.17 & kernel-headers-2.4.17-k7 from?
$ apt-cache search 2.4.17 |grep ^kernel |grep 17-k7
kernel-headers-2.4.17-k7 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.17 on AMD K7
kernel-image-2.4.17-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.17 on AMD K7
$ apt-cache search 2.4.17 |grep ^kernel-source
kernel-source-2.4.17 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17
kernel-source-2.4.17-ia64 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17 on IA-64
$ sudo apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.17 kernel-headers-2.4.17
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